[ BHAGAVAD GITA · 1.39 · spoken by Arjun ]
Kill a family and you don't just end lives. You end a thousand years of dharma.
When a family falls, its ancient dharma dies with it. And where dharma dies, adharma doesn't just arrive. It overwhelms. It takes everything.
SANSKRIT
कथं न ज्ञेयमस्माभिः पापादस्मान्निवर्तितुम् । कुलक्षयकृतं दोषं प्रपश्यद्भिर्जनार्दन ॥१-३९॥
KRISHNA’S LINE
“Dharma doesn't die in one battle. It dies when the people who carry it disappear.”
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